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’TIL WE MEET AGAIN I was lithe, agile, and able to twist away from any hands that would try to grab me as I played football on the street. Why wouldn’t I want to move the same way in the sky? It was my Uncle Daniels who undoubtedly— though perhaps unwittingly—played the biggest part in fueling my imagination. After he returned from the Great War— what many believed was the “war to end all wars”— my siblings and I peppered him with endless questions. “Tell us about the war again, Uncle Daniels,” we’d beg. “Yeah! Like the time you found Germans in a trench . . .” “And about how you’d take them prisoner . . .” “Or how you’d shoot them!” And so, without complaint, Uncle Daniels would drag his mind back to the muddy fields of the European countryside. He’d clamber back into the earth, into the filth and death of the trenches, and again face the horror of stepping out into no- man’ s-land. Sifting through his memories, he’d limp back to those times he’d stood face- to- face with an enemy soldier. None of it was appropriate or even possible for children to understand, but he humored us. Perhaps turning these traumas into children’s stories and comic book adventures lessened the pain a little somehow. I didn’t grasp the magnitude of what he had experienced, but there was still a lot I was soaking in. I liked looking at the scuffed helmet my uncle kept hidden in a box, and whenever he pulled it out, I pictured the Germans with their hands in the air, meekly obeying the orders to stand down and fall in line. 14
RAY AND BETTY WHIPPS But I also had a sense that war wasn’t quite like it was in the games I played with my buddies. There was something about the way Uncle Daniels looked just before he’d stop answering questions. I may have been young, but I could tell that there was a terrifying side to war. It wasn’t a game; it was dangerous and real. I couldn’t imagine ever having the courage to face war myself, but I figured I’d never have to. After all, we’d won the war to end all wars, right? 15
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CHAPTER ONE I am Adam Eberhart. At
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